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THE CHINA "MAIL.
While choirs of cherubim in
echalon Mounting are melted, and in
melting gone.
Ian's that sweetly pretty? It was scribbled in five minutes, with-i out a single erasure would (we) verily believe) mas muster is al most any of the New Thought pub-'
estions and it doesn't mean darn thing. Conlound it. instead ot wasting our energy in thought| and analysis. and in writing plaint
for commonsense' folk, we believe we could make a fortune more quickly by compiling || bankam for the bighbrows, and posing, posing. posing, as these long-haired homunculi do. It is just as easy in prose, though poetry will carry off such impudences oftener than prose will. However.. What's the matter with this?
CommGrense
Materialism fails, and faith alone. prevails, where the objective off. endeavour is the eradication of the
And so within the stresma
with its low and mellow laughter..
after,.
VERBAL BEAUTY.
13
now see I was not in King Street when the mail train arrived.
**If writes Dr. Cohalan,
MONDAY, MAY-"“31, 1930,"
THE KING'S BIRTHDAY.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR TEL RECEPTION' AND BALL AT
. GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
the following hours. a.m., 1.30 Special Trams are arranged for
OUR UNIVERSITY.
PRESENTATION TO PROF. AND MBS. WARREN.
Prof. and Mrs. Warren wegs on
Mr. Mackintosh was called upon by At the close of the proceedings the students for a speech:
Mr. Mackintosh said:
Stress of story weather and the tang of spindrift dying The creak and groan of bulk-
beads that are straining to Catholic Bishop of Cork, the the rol
worst should happen if it were Ob! daytimes worth the dawn-proved that the Ecrl Mayer WBS ing Oh the "wask well murdered by members of the worth the trying
RI.C, or it a serious doubt re) The hand that rules the ocean mained about it-I would ask the lency the Governor and Lady Stubbs tea by the Undergraduate Members On Thursday evening His Excel-Saturday afternoon entertained to has, the ruling of my soul. public to be just to the general will receive guests in the Ball Room of Lugard Hall, of which University
body of men in the R.1.0. A murat 9:15 pm. there being a Private Hostel Prof, Warren is Warden. ders very deliberately-planned Entree at 9 o'clock for those who
In the course of the afternoon. Mr. murdar-might be committed by a have received Frivate Entree cards. K. C. Cheam presented Prof. Warren group of men of any organisation, Guests are kindly requested to arrive with a Type-writer, and made touch- I seem to bear the waters ap and it would not be fair to punish promptly and to bring with them a ing reference to Prof. Warren's de
ping round the massiva holls;
the whole organisation for the card with their name written thereon parture on fifteen months' leave by And, the Vision wanders out-
crime. No doubt the RRC. as to be handed to the Aidede Camp in the s.a. "Delta. ward, yet my Fancy follows whofa will have got a terrible shake the Ball Room.
Amongst the guests were Mr. M. from the murder if the charge
The Ball will commence at 10 H. Roffeythe new Warden of Till the eben rooks of England against the force is not disproval, o'clock, and at 11,30 p.m. Supper Lugard Hall, Mrs. Roffey, Frof.
are a flock of silver gulis.
but we must not forget that there will be served downstairs in the Middleton Smith and the Registrer is a multitude of good Irishmen in Supper Room.
of the University. It makes one pmud the force. There should be no other conveyances will be under the The regulation of chairs and and prouder of the thought of retaliation. That should control of a Police Inspector to whom English language only mean that the two sections of guests requiring any information
Slim alders by the Irishmen would begin mutually should apply. hispid mole from the face off giver. like finely pencilled murdering each other, while the Beauty. No. That's a straight-frieze." That is England. That enemy of their common country forward if peelantic way of saying is a room which forces the heart-gloated over the disorder." that the druggist's depilatories are remembered things to come back It is quite clear that out here we aseless, and the faith cure better to 13. swelling the bosom and dim, cannot hope to know what is really for having a hairy male froinming the eye. Those rural scenes locentring in Ireland. woman's cheek. We runst have where men may wander drowsing another shot.
down the easy ways of earth. Hark! How often, ah! how Don't you know them? The often to the soul in loneliness, from ebun rooks of England," "plan- the farther bounds of the infiniteing and capsizing, meur a lot to inseen "purion the Infinite Fun Englishmat. It is amusing to seen-laing yet somehow clear as tote an American critic afuta f
Today's dollar is worth 4s. 1d. the more of a shell by Chaly-poem remarking: The rooks that don's chalybeate shore, transcen- sturt his fancy into action are akin be opened on Saturday next, when a The Taikoo Bowling Green will ing the most diring næental Bights to be homely crow. That such rink game for spoons will be played of the materially-minded slave ungainly birds can evoke in this logic. lifting the spirit in such poet's mind TM etc. etc. No doubt The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak has ecstasy as poesy never yet pro-Americans have things that mean forwarded a parcel of papers for the duced, nor prophecy dreamed of. what rooks mean to us, and we troops leaving by the ss. "Professor." comes to the couchant ear the might someday be equally ground- Message that the insolubility of ali fessly surprised, so we will forgive! A fine of $10for two weeks wIS problems sugaru mundane may in all him. The name of the poet is imposed on a Chinese this morning faith much trust be left to that in-loyee Bowden.
for the possession of 5 tacks of opium telligence which over-cales reason.
at Hok Lo Chin. that percipience which surpasses finite vision, that inefable co- sciousness that pervades for ever) and ever the innermost being of the loghorreraPhy-hilled sucker.
You
AND GITEN
PAPER
that the question of likeness to life, as it strikes the eye, ix Fin portrait comparatively irrelevant.” It
cannot be decided by the ap- peal to the eye. Apparently the only way to judge a portrait is to shut your eye and listen to it. **Almost necessarily phe resda into portraits of eminent men what one has heard about them. Mr. John "allows his brush to be guided lesa by the looks than by the tempera ment of the sitter. Bosh! And meaningless. Except as tempera- ment is betrayed by looks, and recorded by a looking artist for us. to look at, it does not enter portrai-
A still more illustrative article" is
sian painter called Roerich, who. in passing, can't draw. He starts right off with this. "When an artist,to whom it is given to reflect the colours, the sounds. and the thoughts engendered in Infinity remains whole-heartedly within the On the Twelfth of May we
vibrations linking him with it, he published an article on cant and makes them tangible to all." jargon in writings about art. It pictorial artist may reflect colours, was a good article, bighly original and within limitations, thoughts, not only for Hongkong but for the but he cunnot reflect in his paint- whole English-writing world. We ings the sourds, even those
The China Mail.tore
"TRUTE, JUSTICE PUBLIC SERVICE" by a Bussian writer about a Ris-
Hongkong, Monday, Mar 31, 1920.
INEIST UPON MEANINGS.
can
fear that article was wasted.
A
en-
ggested that the motive of all gendered in Infinity." He may be thes affectation of arcana in art is linked with Infinity by vibrations childish vanity. its endeavour to that conveys anything to you) Jake art a mystery, instead of the but he cannot make colours tang- primal simplicity that any normally ible, or sounds tangible, or thoughts
lear-sighted person
under tangible, because the word tangible. stood. Because of its hetero- like the word engendered, has s zloxy, because, so far as our read. meaning.
Confess now, if you bad encoun- ing goes, no one has ever bad the courage to say it before, though tered that passage apart from the many must have thought it, we leering context we have given it, We that you would have swallowed its have heard of only one reader, him apothing sonority and zonkled self an artist, who appreciated it. rhythm you would have been Maskee! On Saturday we took the faintly and pleasantly conscious of latest number of The Studio to read an aurabrant meaning somewhere at lunch, and we got from that the behind it, and you would have. idea of (1) driving home our point passed on, neither edified, instruct- about art cant, and (2) preaching ed, nor annoyed at the insult to homily to the general reader to your intelligence. For that, after insist upon a meaning for all the all, is what it is: Both these fel- verbosities that are thrust at bim.lows are insulting you. You de
The leading article was about serve it if you don't resent it. It Augustus John as portrait painter, (for one accustomed to handling is the easiest thing in the world
anthor. Charles Marriott is a words) to folst upon you words that novelist, a photographer, and sound passably right and yet inean chemist, as well as a writer on art, nothing. Tet is, offhand and im- And he seems to take pleasure in promptu, embark upon an experi- informing the world through the ment. Here goes.
and Charles Marriott
W38 ita
always entertaining pages of Who's Who that, he is descended from Flemish refugees who went to Essex in the XVI century. His father was a brewer. We're going to accuse him, on the strength of this Studio article, of writing con- scious rat
Passing over a mysterious dis- tintion of the eye as "a critic of reality and as a channel of perception, we come to his claim
Source immaterial of material
Zen.
Piling Pelion, on the pride of
mien,
How shall our orisons with
vibant vim Homologate, and yet not bum
bla, Hiin?
Pendant, the ether's dangling
arc
Trradiales the infinite, primal
lark,
His brow was fur. THE BRAIN rowed, bis
WORKER. sunken. with
WAY,
* centrated
eyes
LOCAL AND GENERIK
V
great. For having caused an obstruc"
יז.
a.m., 1.45 a.m., 2 a.m. and 2:15. a.m. Kowloon at 2 am:
A Special Ferry will leave for
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
CHURCH HALL FOUNDATION
·STONE LAID.
Ladies and Gentlemen! Prisoners they say will be taken down in writ are sometimes told that anything ing and used in evidence against them. I am to-day even more hardly treated than the prisoner, for not only everything: I say, but even the things I do not say are put into writing and used against me by one or other writer in the Press to prove my incompetence and my villainy.
Even so, I could not resist the temptation to be present at this social gathering to-night, once mure to have the opportunity of wishing Prof. and Mrs. Warren Au revoir; a good voyage, a very pleasant holiday and a safe return to us.
The foundation stone of the new Church Hall, which is to be erected hear St. John's Cathedral was laid yesterday by H. E the Governor, At a dinner given in Prof. Warren's after the morning service. His honour the other night, a speaker. Excellency, with Lady Stubbs, and attributed to him especially the attended by his private secretary, quality of loyalty: your chair Capt. Warner, was taken to a man this evening has lald: stress raised dais, the procession being upon his quality of confidence headed by the choir. Here the in others; I would like to emphasise Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle con
a third quality which I specially ducted a special service, and in appreciate in Prof. Warren-the inviting His Excellency to lay the more so as it is a quality in which, stone said: Your Excellency, I will myself am conspicuously lacking- of our honorary architect a silver and I am only a Poet-i mean the now ask you to receive at the hands but Prof. Warren is an Engineer
trowel with which to lay this quality of Common Sense. foundation stone.
And if, Gentlemen, you are sincere the trowel saying Your Excellency, and affection for your Warden, Mr. W. L. Leask then presented in your expression of admiration have very much pleasure in handing it seems to. follow logically
I
year
A purse was found in St. Joseph's Church, Garden Road, after Mass on the result of his nieditations be had on application to Father thought. yesterday morning. The purse may the posperity of the Colony might Augustine. Hung it all. That means sole depend. The times were difficult. thing. Too Perhaps. after all.problems pressing, issues these fellows we have been giving it was easy to see that although tion in Causeway Bay, the Chinese all meant something. It is up to he signed his coffee and raunched master of a junk was fired $10 by
Don't be intellectually lazy his tast, his mind was far, far from Commander. Beckwith in the Marine you this trowel, and asking you to that you admire the qualities of Read with your minds. And laugh the breakfast table. His wife look Court this morning. If you do read with your minds, ed at him.
keep it as a small memento of the Common Sense, Conâdence and One could regard her you'll find lots to laugh at.
occasion.. from the contractor and Loyalty, and that I may naturally as humble and adoring, almost | The total output of the Kailan the architect.
look for such qualities in this hostel awed by the obvious presence of Mining Administration's mines for
His Excellency: ADVERSARIA.
Thank you very which is stamped by your Warden's sheer intellectual force in action the week ending 15th May, 1920, much. My friends, we are met to Personality. They are abstract terras, She ventured to speak. She said: amounted to 92,262 tons and the lay the foundation stone of the it is true, but I want to appeal to In connection with If you don't send your ofice sales during the period to 32,560 Cathedral ball,. For years past the them just now in a very real practical the paper shortage, peon to the Dairy Farm to remind tons.
work which centres round this way. For your University has been SHORTAGE. it is suggested that them about the kippers, there'll be
Cathedral as the mother church off and is being attacked from without, 3 law should be no breakfast for you to-morrow,"
The "Pharies" of H. M. s. the diocese has been bampered in and from within, and it is your duty passed insisting that all shoes! should be made of leather.
The Cluna Mail has no performance in the Theatre Royal on the other by lack of buildings. The
Titania are giving a grand variety two ways one by lack of funds, and to defend her from these attacks.
THE ATTACKS. Little Alec knows
BY THE monopoly of humour. Thursday, June 10, in aid of the Sea- first difficulty has, to some extent,
Gentlemen, do not misunderstand THERE'S A why profiteers will
Otter the Daily Pressman's Institute.. We are assured that been removed in the course of this me:
The University is not on fire: gete off a really rich it is a rattling good show, REASON. never go to heaven, thing, in its own quiet, dignified
by the generous donation I am not asking you to pick up He says if they did manner. On, Saturday morning, it
with which Sir Paul Chater has either of the ladies present to carry those streets of gold would be worse cut on than ours are by the P.W.D.Fast of Suez, it is said, the Connaught Road has been rent to the that before I leave this Colony I am not even asking you to find your A Chinese living at. No. 129. endowed the church, and I trust in triumph down the fire escape--I never does manual Government Civil Hospital suffering may see the finances of the Diocese Hostel fire buckets. The attack at Here's & poem roin labour: he is employed to use histrom a broken leg, the result of being placed on a proper footing by the present may be divided into two the Sydney Bulletin brain. That fact, of itself, as knocked down by a motor cycle on Fund, without which the work of a which should please sumes that all white men East of Saturday.
establishment of an Endowment headings: FOD. Doesn't it
(1) We are in financial difficulty. Szez are brain-workers."
The cycle which was church must inevitably be carried on Now that is the main point that the You driven by a European and contained with difficulty. The other difficulty commission has been appointed to couldn't honestly call that an un-a lady in the side car, did not stop to has been that the Cathedral bas no enquire into; and as Secretary to the assuring fact.
render assistance. Mr. A. J. Williams of
place where it can centre the activities Commission it is impossible. for me. Honan bas called at-
Many friends in China will be lectures, classes, meetings, entertain. say this and it is very necessary that. of a quasi-social nature, such as to say a word at present; but I will tention to a missionary
interested to hear of the marriage in ments, Sunday school, and so forth. it should be said and as loudly as The ebon rooks of England are objectionable on the ground that it hai Bank, the bride being Miss Isobel to think that in my first year valent that some one has been putting tract which he thinks Aberdeen of Mr. George Mackay That difficulty has now been re- possible. No money has been misap swift planing and capsizing
Dalgety, of the Hongkong & Sharg moved, and it is a great pleasure propriated; the idea has become pre On the current of the silver stir up anti-fneign feeling. C. Macintosh. Mr. Mackay Dalgety here I have seen the two difficulties his hands into the till and helping wind that whistles from theres the Chinese to become was stationed in Hongkong for sever taken away from the path of the himself; that, Gentlemen, is untrue.
Christians so that they may becomeal years, leaving just before the out church. There is much to be done virtuous and strong and able to break of the war for Singapore. fight it out against the foreign was
(2) "The Faculty of Arts is to be He in a hall such as this, and I have cut out as a result of this Com- devils who corne "with great ima Andrew's Society, acting as Hop- establishment of this hall will be sa claims the responsibility of having a prominent member of St. every hope that the results of the mission"-I see that the China Mail teeth." There must be some mis- Treasurer. take. When the Chinese become Christians they will, of course,
HOOKS AND
GULLS.
evoke mind pictures?
Like tattered scraps of paper they are Buttering and rising, And the jargon of their clam- ouring is very loud and shrill :
.
Jill.
white man
ABOUT A
TRACT.
T
Hills of jade, and silver wind and
rain across the ridges, Slitu alders by the river, like a
finely penciled frieze;
increase in the strength and value of reported this piece of news, and the The chuckling mirth of water
the work of the church and I trust adds the extraordinary remark that under little rustic bridges; turn the other cheek" to all person of a compatriot, a Chinese Inatitution to the glory of God and I am not sure whether a newspaper For the theft of $20 from the that the building will be a successful God alone knows whether it is true. And ricks and roofs and chim-aggressors.
ney sincke within a cloud of trees.
And over all the ebon rooks are tumbling and whirring,
THE MAYOR
OF CORK?'
•
your
this morning was sentenced by Mr. the spread of the name of His Holy should report something as a fact Pay your money N.L. Smith to six weeks' hard labour Church. And now, in the faith of and then afterwards explain that the WHO KILLED and take It was stated that he took advantage Jesus Christ, we place this foundation truth of the statement is known only choice. (1) The of the fact that his victim was stone in the name of God the Father, to the Supeme being; Gentlemen. I "Shin' Fane coron carrying a
child in his arms, to God the Son and God the Holy know that this statement is not true And a phrase is whispered,
A detective Ghost. whispered from the tips of that the British Government did No money was found on his person, tion "This foundation stone was have called upon three Professors in
er's jury decided patch the money.
chase and
It is a Double Distilled Lie. arrested him.
The stone, which bore the inscrip The Commission, we are told, it implicating Lord French and but a $10 bili was picked up from laid by Sir. Reginald Stubbs, the Faculty of Arts to resign. ragged wings,
Lloyd George. (2) The Times and the ground near him.
Till deep within my being I can
feel a longing stirring For the sea's words and the white birds and the heart- remembered things.
Ships, and spars of amber, Bowing out of bunting: The lift, the sag, the urching as the grounder meets the prow:
Daily Mail early announced, "on
unimpeachable authority," that the
gave.
K.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong.
Gentlemen, the Commission has May 30th, 1920" was then placed in not yet held one single sitting; and position, His Excellency first using (but this is a great secret which I
Irish Republican Brotherhood CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES. the trowel and then tapping the will let you know) these three gentle-
IRELAND.
.,
THE RAILWAY.
The revised salaries for the Railway Department are
Manager £900 to £1,100 by. £25
Engineer of Way and Works £70)
stone with a mallet.
men resigned before the Commission After further prayers the ceremony had even been gazetted. I appeal to concluded.
KINEMA NOTES.
HONGKONG THEATRE,
your Common Sense to see plainly that the Commission did not and could not have asked for any. Resignations. -
excented him. for being untrust- worthy. Dublin Castle was credit. theed with evidence of this but never produced it. (3) Lord French in an interview, later repudiated, said Shin Fane did it.(4) Shin Fane said the police did it. The loping leagues to windward
After which, we wouldn't be annually.
And next I appeal to your Con where the ocean guils are surprised to hear that he isn't dead;
fidence; The University Authorities, hunting,
the Court. Council and Senate are And here a coaster trudging the Bolshevist or Spartacist army to £700 by £20 annually. at all, but fighting as a general into £850 by £25 annually.
"Locomotive Superintendent £620
aurely deserving of a little trust. bome, and there a scodding
Tomorrow night will mark the Look at the members of the Com At the inquest on the scow !
FOLICE IN Lord Mayor of Cork, £10 annually.
Chief Accountant £600 to £700 by kong Theatre of "Toton, a drama that it is the Parent of the University concluding screening at the Hong- mission itself. The China Mail says Oh! not for me the quiet roof,
witnesses were called the firelight in the ingle,
who testified that a to £360 by £10 annually,
which has found much popularity and that no Parent would destroy its *Permanent: Way Inspector £329 during its run. It will be fallowed own offspiring. Mr. Tso the Chinese Where men may wanderquad of policemen, or of men with
police costs and carbines, were to £360 by £10 annually.
*Traffic Inspector, 1st Class £320 Wednesday with Thomas Ince's member of the Commission-is one drowsing down the easy
comedy-drama "The no-good boy," of the original founders of the Faculty ways of earth;
seen going to or from the murdered Traffic Inspector, 2nd Class £220 which portrays the adventures of a of Arts; one of those men who Full brother to the ocean, I have said none of his comrades went out
man's house. Constable Larkin to £300 by £10 annually.
young man, the heir of a large guaranteed the money on the strength felt my pulses tingle,
**Free quarters.
fortune, in spending his money. of which this Faculty was founded. For the broad phrase of the that night. Caristable Walsh went
Mr. Winslow is granted £100 non pert in this film. The next change that he would not tolerare for a
William Collier has the principal Will you have no confidence in hi sea's ways has spoken of her further, suggesting that the squad pensionable personal allowance.
came.by mail train. In reply to a The Chief Accountant should pay "Rough and Ready featuring offspring?
programaie will bring moment the destruction of his own juror, he said he saw a group pass 6 per cent, on salary for rent of william "Farsum, and produced by ing through King Street, coming quartera
And lastly I appeal to your loyalty. from the mail train, about 2.45.
William Fox, will be brought before-No man, worthy of the name of Mr. Winyard becomes Traffic In
Mother attacked or insulted: The Universty is your Alma Mater Guard be carefully just now--whatever
worth.
Race of wind and smash of sea,
the scuppers rolling under The rush and wash of waters Mr. Lynch (for the next of kin): specior, First Clase; Mr. Cuff be the patrons of the Theatre, man, will stand idly by and see his
when the green is in the Were you not out at the Lord comes Traffic Inspector, Second ...waist;
Mayor's house with the military Class The wave that poops the taffrail from 2.40 to 3.40 o'clock?—Yes.
and comes roaring down like And you tell the Court you saw ance of $10 a month in respect of for the dorp seed cough of the adult be yours and mine-let sink Mr. Winyard will receive an allowRemedy is world wide. It is good your own personal grievances may thunder And the clatter aft the deck-men?
in King Street at 2.45/a group of First Aid work.
' י
house where in awning is Witness did not reply immedi. Tako "WALLA-WALLA" BOAT unliced!
ately, but a little later said:
to your ship Phone No. 3816,
SERVES THE WHOLE FAMILY. THE Lama of Chamberlain's Cough
of the cup and whooping cough of the them--and under the inspiration.of hole family. For sale by all Chemists in Common Sense, in Confidence, in children. The same bottle serves the the example your Warden has set us
od Storekes era.
Loyalty, let us stand by..
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